MALAYA: Waiting on Lefty

On a mountain top in Malaya last week, John
Davis waited for an old wartime friend. Davis had slipped into Malaya
by submarine during the Japanese occupation, fought as a guerrilla
against the Japanese with the man he was now waiting for: Chin Peng,
Chinese-educated leader of Malaya's Communists. After World War II had
come a parting of the ways: after marching in the victory parade in
London, Chin Peng had gone back to the jungle to continue his guerrilla
war, this time against the British and the Malayans; Davis had become a
senior district officer in the government...